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Fri. 5/24/13 9:09am
ausmanx:
sadly down in a bunker like some latter-day morlock, rather than on the mountain. evening to all the folks, and i'm subtitling a serbian film about a Gay Pride rally in Belgrade tonight, which seems appropriate!

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Fri. 5/24/13 9:09am
Uncle Michael:
The story about the speech on NPR didn't even mention this incident.

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Fri. 5/24/13 9:10am
Doug Schulkind:
@AndrewC
It used to be .../Doug, but the WFMU's whole playlist database just got overhauled and my old playlist were migrated onto a new set-up, thus the new .../DS url. (I realize I described that pitifully.) The old .../Doug still works, it just transfers you to the new directory or somesuch. Still stuck with the same old me, however.

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Fri. 5/24/13 9:13am
Doug Schulkind:
@Jeff Golick
I had the SAME reaction. All I can think of is "L'Chaim!"

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Fri. 5/24/13 9:19am
Jeff Golick:
There's a great anecdote in a long and long-ago New Yorker profile of Ang Lee. Lee was trying to get his screenwriter to make some family scenes "more Chinese." The screenwriter, who was Jewish, had no idea how to do this, so just made the family encounters as typically Jewish as he could. Lee came back and said something like, "Yes, you have really captured it now."

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Fri. 5/24/13 9:28am
Doug Schulkind:
Coming up next is an amazing sort of free-style rapping/dozens playing/call-and-response duet performance from Brazil that just blows me away. I'm not sure if this style is particular to the performers (Geraldo Mousinho & Cachimbino) or if it is a wider style. If the latter, I have yet to find anyone other than these two performing it.

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Fri. 5/24/13 9:35am
Doug Schulkind:
@Artie
Surely there are African traces in the Brazilian performance style. More likely West African (due to slave trade) than North African. But you never know. (See Jeff Golick's comment at 9:22.)

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Fri. 5/24/13 9:50am
Doug Schulkind:
"My Rainbow Race" was performed by Nilsen and a crowd of more than 40,000 people in Youngstorget in Oslo and at squares across the country on April 26, 2012, as a protest against statements given in court by Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the July 22 attacks in 2011. The performance was inspired by Facebook reactions after Breivik claimed in his trial testimony that the song was an example of Marxist propaganda and that it was being used to "brainwash" Norwegian children. Organization was made at the level of Norwegian Minister of Culture, and other Ministers [of Culture] from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands were also present. The song was thus performed a few days later, in the midst of the ongoing trial. In Oslo the sing-along was followed by a march up to the site of the trial, where the crowd laid down flowers. The song was performed both in Norwegian and English, and Nilsen had personally contacted Seeger, who responded with the words: "Oh me, oh my. I wish you luck." (Wikipedia)

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Fri. 5/24/13 9:54am
ausmanx:
ah, mention of Breivik reminds me that he quoted our Australian conservative Prime Minister John Howard as a policy model in his manifesto. one of Howard's great legacies. (he will forever be known as "the lying rodent", as the Opposition leader referred to him in parliament).

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Fri. 5/24/13 9:57am
Doug Schulkind:
George Brandis admits to calling him a rodent, but not a lying rodent. He says Howard was a "truthful rodent." (Do I have that right?)

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Fri. 5/24/13 10:00am
ausmanx:
one of Brandis' colleagues swore a statement that he used "lying". it seems pretty likely! Brandis will be our next Attorney-General, sigh.

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Fri. 5/24/13 10:02am
Doug Schulkind:
I will forever be smitten with your current PM. And not just because she's a redhead.

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Fri. 5/24/13 10:03am
Hugo:
In my language, it is known as "Barn av regnbuen" - children of the rainbow. I wasn't aware that it was a cover of a Pete Seeger song, though. The artist in question was Lille-Bjørn Nilsen. A huge hit in this country back in the early 70s.

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Fri. 5/24/13 10:04am
ausmanx:
sadly she's been disgraceful enough in her own way (though nothing like your own incumbent). her refugee policy, which was what Breivik admired in Howard, is not so different

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Fri. 5/24/13 10:05am
Doug Schulkind:
Hugo! I was thinking of of you, for obvious reasons. (Because you are a paragon of love, of course.)

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Fri. 5/24/13 10:37am
Jeff Golick:
Monday is Memorial Day here in the ol' USA. Miles Davis' birthday is Sunday.
D:O Radio will be memorializing Miles for much of Monday's show. With some bonus Wayne thrown in for kicks.

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Fri. 5/24/13 10:43am
KevinfromBayRidge:
If it makes you feel any better, Doug I'm actually at work in a windowless office in Queens as we speak. Which is why getting your live show, finally, is such a mind-saver. Alas I will probably traverse your old hood (Cobble Hill? ) over the W/E.

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Fri. 5/24/13 10:50am
Hugo:
@Kevin: What's the population of Bay Ridge these days? It used to be many Norwegians there back in the middle of last century. I bought a sociology dissertation on Norwegians in Bay Ridge, written in the 1950s, to find out more about the expat community, but now I believe most have left for the suburbs and been thoroughly assimilated.

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Fri. 5/24/13 10:52am
Doug Schulkind:
@dvx
That is a capital idea. I doubt it is possible because the favoriting is possible with songs entered into the WFMU playlist database system and the songs in the stream's general queue are not. It is a request worth making, though, and I will!

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:01am
Doug Schulkind:
@dvx
I would LOVE to have a permanent website for the stream that will provide song info and a running comments thread. Of course, I will have even less of a life than I do now. But that's okay.

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:02am
Doug Schulkind:
Sabah was From Lebanon. Big movie star as well as as a heartthrob singing act.

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:06am
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
@dvx: I can automate the machines, but there's no robot that can replace Doug's care and feeding of the GTDR stream listening community. It'd be like a party without a host. (Audio footnote: Charlie's recent Party show.)

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:20am
Doug Schulkind:
@dvx
To answer your earlier question: The songs that play during the stream's automated default mode are nor individually selected. I have programmed the software to select tracks from specific folders and programmed it to play from a rotation of folders, but the tracks themselves are essentially random (though there are parameters about how often a particular track, artist or album can be played within a certain period of time.)

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:20am
Brian in UK:
Why are vowels so unpopular these days? There are four consonants in the word anyway.
Where is james?

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:21am
dc pat:
hmm but that's part of art isn't it? instant critique? when I started playing punk groups in Harrisburg PA at 16 the crowd was always very vocal about what was liked or disliked. Immediate feedback. I always thought that was good. Nowadays, everybody claps for everything no matter how lousy. That bugs me. I guess so we can all just move on without bickering all the time. I dunno. I was only half serious anyways.

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:26am
Uncle Michael:
I just unstunked the funk. Was that a mistake?

Fri. 5/24/13 11:26am
still b/p:
Ken played a track this week with intensively autotuned vocal by Big Blood daughter. Interesting, and my reflexive autotune recoil was soon suppressed. Suggestions of Arabic style and melisma in the effect.

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:26am
KevinfromBayRidge:
@Hugo, Sorry I was away from the Comments ( BAD BAD work!!). Yeah BR has gotten much more diverse but it's still a "too white" 'hood but that's with a very loose definition. I do know a few old-family Norseman (& Norsewomen!). My guestimate on ethnicity would be: 20% Italian (leaving off "-American"); 20% Asian;15% Arabic;15% Greek;10% Irish;20% Other(including me!).Over in Sunset Park, there were some Scandanavian bars on 8th Ave up until about 10 years ago, but became totally incongruent to the venue and are sadly relics now.

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:27am
davex:
@Doug: Thanks, I was thinking that it would be a lot of work to select every track all the time. I suppose other functions could still work automatically with that system with a bit of tweaking.

@Brian in UK: I didn't realize vowels were out of style. That would be a reason to put them back in.

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:33am
Hugo:
@Kevin: Yeah, that's what I expected. If there are any left, they would be up in their 60s-70s or even beyond. Politically, from what I can read, they are more conservative than over here and more religious.

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:38am
hyde:
I always sort of wondered how the Drummer stream sort of seemed to group things together but still also was seemingly kinda random. Now I know. This is like going backstage at the puppet show. I know more, but a little bit of the magic is gone.

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:38am
Doug Schulkind:
I got a beagle for my 10th birthday. I named her Lubi.

@hyde
And I program the stream naked. Now you know everything.

Fri. 5/24/13 11:39am
still b/p:
"...sliced the Drummer so thin he would liquefy in the pan with a little oil. It's a very good system."

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:40am
hyde:
@Doug I am no longer paying any attention to the man behind the curtain!

Fri. 5/24/13 11:41am
Listener Gregory:
Do you KNOW that Stanislah is not related to Lindsay? They seem to share a certain party mentality.

Fri. 5/24/13 11:49am
Filip:
Putumayo!!! Doug, you're right on the target! I always felt the same and avoided their record store displays! Something stale about them and their plain ugly graphics... Ha ha... Cheers from Warsaw!

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:50am
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
@hyde: Doug told you what he knows about the robot. But the robot didn't tell anyone its secrets.

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:51am
Doug Schulkind:
@Filip
Hey!! I was thinking of you recently when I read about the Dalai Lama and Dr. John receiving honorary degrees at Tulane's commencement this year!

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Fri. 5/24/13 11:53am
Doug Schulkind:
Before you get your groove on too deeply, this song is about a pedophile. Just sayin'.

Sun. 5/26/13 1:49pm
Listener Gregory:
Hi, Doug. Great show as always. However, I am not sure I agree with your comment on the beginnings of the Third Stream movement. I don't think the originators like Gunther Schuller, Charles Mingus, John Lewis, and even Ornette Coleman were that interested in moving jazz to the concert hall. I think they were more interested in trying to expand jazz beyond the be-bop mainstream, which was in danger of becoming cliche'ed. Of course, there has always been "jazz plays the classics" tripe around, which DOES fit that description, but I wouldn't call that Third Stream. I'm glad you played the Jimmy Giuffre in any case.

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Mon. 5/27/13 4:44pm
bobdc:
Every generation gets the Medea Benjamin it deserves, but FMU listeners get a Media Benjamen.

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Mon. 5/27/13 5:00pm
Doug Schulkind:
@Listener Gregory
Fair Point. I wasn't intending to mean that the artists themselves were pushing for the sort of legitimacy that fancy concert halls would bestow. Rather, it was the industry of jazz, the labels, bookers and promoters, and especially the critics, who, were encouraging (through all there attendant pressures) the music to follow a path less intimidating to white audiences. Surely my garble missed the essential point I intended to make.